Date : 3rd May
Weather: Bright and sunny, but a bit chilly
Footwear: Cute wee black ballet pumps
Morning bloggies!!
If Carlsberg did weekends.... I tell you, what a weeked I've had.
All last week I was tied up with Jesus Christ Superstar rehearsals, dress rehearsals, tech rehearsals and on Thursday night we opened. We opened after 12 weeks of long rehearsals, lost voices, missing Apostles, costume issues with my pants (loong story)... to be part of the show was something really special and quite often you'll hear people talk about "post show blues" and its so true. You spend so much time together with your fellow cast mates, and you see each other when you are hyper, shattered, ratty or ill that you become family and for show week you spend more time in a dressing room than you do in bed. But its all worth it. What we managed to put on last week was a spectacular show and I've not heard one bad review or comment about it. So well done JC cast and crew - heres to working with you all again soon.
Some highlights of show week for you all (apologies if they make little to no sense... some of you will know what I'm on about)
" Oh my fucking god"
"Herods dancers, bigger pants please. The guys in the fly tower dont know where to look"
"Good evening Jews, Romans, assorted Judeans and Herods Whores, this is your 5min act 1 beginners call"
"Welcome to the Alhambra Fm, and if your name is Clarke this one is for you. Act 1 beginners to stage"
Anything that came out of Kate Haley's scarcastic Irish mouth - That girl is compedy gold!
"Why wouldnt we find you attractive Vicki, you wear anal beads as accessories"
"See my purse.... its empty" ( When Ed forgot his line of "See my purse I'm a poor poor man" how anyone can forget a line halfway into it..!)
So many memories and the photos are just coming back to haunt us all on facebook....! No detagging now...
Now onto my race recap.
Yesterday marked the day that I would run my first ever 10k, and those of you the know me know that recently I was regretting the decision to do that. However, after the show on Sat night I went home, got an early night (didn't even watch 24!) and got up at 8am to start my race prep. Rob stayed in bed, knowing that hes going to be standing around Holyrood park for the best part of an hour wasn't really a motivator for him to get up early.
I had arranged to meet Mrs Fudge and Mr Fudge at 10am at the Scottish Parliment, then we all headed into the main area for teh start of the warm up. Mrs Fudge and I looted the Eat Natural stand and also the Powerade stand before the race, leaving the boys to carry our stash for the rest of the day. If we are gonna run 10k they can carry our refuel for later.
Fudgey and I has said from the start we would start together and meet at the end, but we'd be running independantly of each other because we both pace differently, and we are both really selfish runners! Normally we chat all the time, but when we are running there is no chat at all.
The first 5k went by perfectly for me, I was timing myself using the highly complex method of Ipod song lengths. Usually 5k for me takes me to track 7 on my ipod, but yesterday I hit the 5k mark by song 5/start of song 6 so approx 27 mins. A new PB.
Then I started to feel slightly unwell.... and decided the best course of action would be to throw up at the 6km marker.
This slowed me up and for the next 2 k I alternated between walking and power walking and light jogging.
Then I saw the 9k marker in the distance and decided to go for it, wasn't fun and my body was telling to stop, there were even a few tears because I was starting to think I couldn't do it.
Then somehow the next thing I knew I was crossing the finish line.
I'm going to be honest, this was not the most fun I'd had running and I wasn't at my best. I was shattered from a busy show week and other bits and pieces, but to hear that Rob and Mr Fudgey thought my time was around the 65min mark really perked me up. Then Mrs Fudgey sent me a text about 2 hours after the race to tell me...
My first ever 10k race time was 64mins and 53 seconds.
I was totally over joyed and wanted to do it all again. Until I got to Robs, felt sick and threw up again.
Moral of the story here kids, never run a 10k after 4 nights of JCS and never eat the cherry flavoured energy bar (designed to be eaten during excercise) after excercise - It'll make you feel great for about 20 mins then you'll feel super sick.
Today I feel great, knees are a bit stiff but thats to be expected.
Next stop Kilimanjaro!
Kmac xxx
